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HMS Express Laid Down : 24th March 1933 Launched : 29th May 1934 Completed : 2nd November 1934 Type : Destroyer Class : E Builder : Swan Hunter Country : UK Pennants : H61 Fate : To Canada (Gatineau) 3rd June 1943. Later became : HMCS Gatineau |
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  HMS Express, July 1935. |
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25th March 1934 - Arrived Sheerness 29th May 1934 - Launched 29th May 1934 - Pennant H61 31st October 1934 - Commissioned 3rd November 1934 - Arrived Sheerness 23rd November 1934 - Arrived Portsmouth 29th November 1934 - Arrived Portland 3rd December 1934 - Arrived Portsmouth 3rd December 1934 - Sailed Portland for Portsmouth 12th December 1934 - Sailed Portsmouth for Chatham 13th December 1934 - Arrived Sheerness 30th April 1935 - 5th Destroyer Flotilla 30th April 1935 - Commissioned for service in the Home Fleet 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 8th September 1936 - Sailed Portsmouth 10th September 1936 - Arrived Newcastle 25th September 1936 - Arrived Invergordon 25th September 1936 - Arrived Invergordon 5th March 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar 11th July 1937 - Arrived Torbay 16th July 1937 - Arrived Portland 20th July 1937 - Sailed Portsmouth for Stranraer 22nd July 1937 - Arrived Stranraer 7th October 1937 - Arrived Portland 23rd October 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar January 1938 - 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 12th March 1938 - Arrived Gibraltar 29th March 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth 19th July 1938 - Escorted The King and Queen from Dover to France 17th January 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth 24th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 28th April 1939 - Arrived Portland 8th June 1939 - Sailed Portland for Newport 9th August 1939 - Attended Review of the British Reserve Fleet 23rd August 1939 - At Portsmouth Commenced refitting as destroyer minelayer 25th August 1939 - Cdr. Jack Grant Bickford, RN In Command 7th September 1939 - At Portsmouth Completed refitting as destroyer minelayer 29th September 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth for Scapa Flow 5th October 1939 - Arrived in the Loire with Convoy BC.85 5th October 1939 - Sailed Quiberon Bay escorting Convoy BC.7S 6th October 1939 - Sailed Bristol Channel escorting Convoy BC.8S 8th October 1939 - Arrived Barry Roads 9th October 1939 - Departed Bristol Channel escorting Convoy BC.10F 11th October 1939 - Arrived in the Loire with Convoy BC.10F 11th October 1939 - Sailed the Loire with Convoy BC.10F 12th October 1939 - Arrived in the Bristol Channel 22nd October 1939 - Sailed Bristol Channel escorting Convoy BC.12 24th October 1939 - Arrived the Loire with Convoy BC.12 25th October 1939 - Sailed the Loire escorting Convoy BC.11 28th October 1939 - Arrived Bristol Channel with Convoy BC.11 30th October 1939 - Sailed Bristol Channel escorting Convoy BC.13S 1st November 1939 - Sailed the Loire escorting Convoy BC.12S 1st November 1939 - Arrived in Quiberon Bay with Convoy BC.13S 3rd November 1939 - Arrived in the Bristol Channel with Convoy BC.12S 7th November 1939 - Sailed Bristol Channel escorting Convoy BC.14 10th November 1939 - Arrived the Loire with Convoy BC.14 12th November 1939 - Sailed Rosyth for the Humber, were held up by fog near Outer Dowsing 15th November 1939 - Sailed Harwich 17th November 1939 - Sailed Harwich for minelaying in the Thames approaches in operation RG 17th November 1939 - Arrived Harwich for minelaying in the Thames approaches in operation RG 29th November 1939 - Laid mines in the Thames approaches 1st December 1939 - 20th Destroyer Flotilla 14th December 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth escorting minelayer Princess Victoria 14th December 1939 - Formed 20th Destroyer Flotilla 22nd December 1939 - Escorting Minelayer Princess Victoria 31st December 1939 - At Portsmouth repairing 3rd February 1940 - Arrived in the Humber after Minelaying Operation JB in the North Sea 7th February 1940 - Sailed Aberdeen for minelay LD 2 in the North Sea 8th February 1940 - Arrived Rosyth 8th February 1940 - Arrived Aberdeen 8th February 1940 - Sailed Aberdeen on minelaying operation LD 3. 9th February 1940 - Carried out second half of Minelaying operation LD 1 10th February 1940 - Sailed Rosyth to lay 60 mines in minefield LD 2 11th February 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact off Flamborough Head 11th February 1940 - Laid mines in minefield LD 3. After the operation, the minelayer anchored in Yarmouth Roads. 12th February 1940 - Laid 38 mines in operation LD 3 in the North Sea 18th February 1940 - Laid Deep Line S in operation DML.8 east of Outer Gabbard 19th February 1940 - Proceeded to Immingham 20th February 1940 - Joined Convoy FS.100 at Humber for passage to Portsmouth 3rd March 1940 - Laid mines in Operation IE-1 in the channels through the German mine fields in the Heligoland Bight 3rd March 1940 - Arrived Humber after Operation 1E-1 was cancelled 3rd March 1940 - 20th Destroyer Flotilla 10th March 1940 - Sailed Sheerness escorting Marshal Soult to Portsmouth 17th March 1940 - Sailed the Humber for Invergordon 19th March 1940 - Arrived Invergordon 20th March 1940 - Sailed Invergordon on minelaying mission PA 4 in the Moray Firth 21st March 1940 - Sent to hunt submarines in Moray Firth 21st March 1940 - 20th Destroyer Flotilla 21st March 1940 - Patrolling in the Moray Firth 22nd March 1940 - Patrolling in the Moray Firth 23rd March 1940 - Damaged in collision with the British trawler ‘Manx Admiral’ off Kinnaird Head. The destroyer was taken to Hartlepool for repairs 23rd March 1940 - Damaged in a collision with trawler Manx Admiral ten miles due north of Kinnaird Head 28th March 1940 - Arrived Hartlepool for collision repairs 1st April 1940 - 20th Destroyer Flotilla, 39th Division Capt. D 1st April 1940 - Capt. J.G. Bickford in Command 1st April 1940 - Repairing at Hartlepool 22nd July 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Francis Jack Cartwright, RN In Command 1943 - Transferred to RCN | |||
HMS Express Artwork Collection |
  Evacuation Dunkirk by Randall Wilson. |   HMS Repulse with HMS Prince of Wales Under Attack by Ivan Berryman |   HMS Hood and HMS Express Departing from Portsmouth 1935 by Ivan Berryman |
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Last edited : 16:20, March 21, 2011
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First Added : 12:02, December 9, 2010
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